Setting up your own recruitment business means setting targets.
Your problem…you’re aiming at a moving target!
All businesses need to set targets. It’s how you achieve things. Financial targets, time targets, profitability targets – without them you’ve no way of measuring your success. Or failure.
As a new business you’ll need targets from the outset. How much turnover do you need to take this to the next level? By when do you aim to reach that level?
But that’s all about running the business, and in truth it could apply to any business. There are other targets for the new – and for that matter established – recruitment business, and that list includes the target audiences; top of that list is the jobseeker. The Candidate.
And that’s where the problem comes. The jobseeker is now a moving target. They’re pushed for time, they’re rushing around, they’re digitally savvy and they expect you to reach them on their mobile devices. The smart phone is now a vitally important medium to you, because it’s inextricably linked to them.
So far, so good. There’s little chance if you’re reading this that you don’t know how the market works. But, at the moment there’s an equally fair chance that someone you’ve hardly ever met is driving your employer’s I.T. and pushing out digital messages to prime targets on your behalf.
When you’re the boss – you’re going to be responsible for it. At the very least that means ensuring your brand new brand’s website is optimised for mobile screen display. In the bigger picture it means you’ll need a fully thought through digital marketing strategy, and the technology to deliver it.
Dealing with that when you’re up to your eyes in starting up isn’t easy. You’re going to have plenty of other things to do (and targets to hit) so immersing yourself in online strategy is something you won’t have time for, and, let’s face it, no matter how good a recruitment consultant you are, you’re probably not a digital strategy expert.
At The Recruit Venture group we have the technology. We know about technology and how it relates to recruitment. Optimising your website is only a part of it. We also offer you full access to our back office meaning that even as a startup you’ll have as good an admin system as anyone.
We provide the finance to get you started too. A full package of support taking in registering your company through to sending out the invoices. You’ll be able to pay yourself a salary; it makes a huge difference when you’re starting up to know that you can pay your bills.
All over the uk recruitment businesses are being set up with our support – and they’re going on to become very successful. If you’ve got five years recruitment experience and the drive to do this, Apply Now
We know about helping recruitment professionals start up their own businesses. And we know a lot about the technology you’ll need to hit your targets.